One of the amazing political achievements of Republicans in this election cycle has been their ability, at least so far, to send Donald Trump’s last year in office down the memory hole. Voters are supposed to remember the good economy of January 2020, with its combination of low unemployment and low inflation, while forgetting about the plague year that followed.
Since Trump’s romp in the Super Tuesday primaries, however, the ex-president and his surrogates have begun trying to pull off an even more impressive act of revisionism: portraying his entire presidency — even 2020, that awful first pandemic year — as pure magnificence. On Wednesday, Representative Elise Stefanik, the chair of the House Republican Conference, tried echoing Ronald Reagan: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
And Trump himself, in his Tuesday night victory speech, reflected wistfully on his time in office as one in which “our country was coming together.”
Trump lied about the size of Inauguration crowd on his first day of office, and embarrassed the whole country on his second day.
Biden’s term has been a disgrace ever since october.
Trump’s been a disgrace since he was born. What’s your point?
OP was kind enough to provide a source, care to share yours?
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Israel-Gaza crisis: US vetoes Security Council resolution
US vetoes call for immediate Gaza ceasefire at UN
US vetoes resolution on Gaza which called for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire
I believe using your veto powers in the UN to block attempts to stop a literal genocide that’s happening right now because of one of your allies is pretty disgraceful if you ask me.
Lol, yeah man. Trump will be so great for Gaza.
Yeah, I mean you’re technically right, but it’s still a trash take because nobody in the running will even plausibly be better, or even just not worse, and ignoring that reality is BS.
Elections don’t bring fascism, material conditions do. The US has the material conditions and fascists operating. Go ahead and vote for Biden but unless you start taking non-voting actions and immediately it really won’t matter. Voting for Hindenburg and defeating Hitler in 1932 didn’t stop his rise to power in 1933.
Bullshit. Trump getting elected is far worse for democracy than Biden. Stop. You have no logic. Explain how him winning will make things better or cut the shit. I’ve had enough of you people.
No no, they’re right, you’re confusing them for the actual “both sides” crowd. They are saying to vote for Biden. Obviously Trump is worse than Biden, and voting blue is prudent harm reduction.
They’re just saying that while voting blue is necessary it is not sufficient. We must also take actions in addition to voting if we hope to transition from the important task of decelerating fascism to the important task of stopping fascism.
I reread it. You’re right. I thought there was a sarcastic/rhetorical tone. Sorry, I was wrong.
They’re not “saying” it aloud and you give too much credit to the people consuming the comments that they can separate the two.
Trump is a symptom of your broken culture.
It’s a feedback loop. The environment allows for his rise. He stokes the people and rewrites the environment to support his normalization. Rinse repeat. Also fwiw it’s about capitalism not American culture. We’re just at this stage and have a history of “liberation” in the 20th century that makes it look even worse than elsewhere. Look at the populists all over the place though.
Fall of Rome in real time, expedited by its media and put under a microscope thanks to the Internet.
I dunno, a good third if not half or whatever of the nation seems ready to fall back asleep and return to this dream. And another third or whatever seem ready to let them. Meanwhile the remaining third downvote you if you dare to say that “Biden is old” - an objective fact if I ever heard one.
Everywhere I look, all I see & hear is “fear” - on literally all sides.
Candidate 1: My side has a plan to enact some truly horrible, regressive shit. You thought I was a dictator the first time? Well, you haven’t seen anything yet. Get ready for my revenge tour. Also, I’m only 4 years younger than the other guy.
Candidate 2: I won’t do any of that. Everything else is just a bonus.
Candidate 3: [Does not exist]
“Undecided” Voter: Man, Candidate #2 is soooo old, you guys. I’mma just vote 3rd party or stay home.
Right, I did not explain myself well there - in the past I have gone to greath lengths to say all of that, but people still downvoted even the tiniest, most mundane, even if delivered in a three-quarters joking manner, that “Biden is old”. Also, I may have been condescending after having been challenged by people who did not really want me to answer their questions - and that part would be on me:-).
For more info, check out Jon Stewart’s position.
The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox.
Malcom X
I think this is timeless.
Democracy and elections for all, we’re not on the ballot then. Do not compare the two.
Clarify; what do you mean?
Supposed to be “were” - sorry.
My point is that the black community letting another 4 years of Democrat status quo vs Republican status quo happen, was as you say, and I agree with. Today is not the same. It’s Democrat status quo vs potential end of free elections and democracy, as espoused first hand by the man at the cusp of taking victory himself. So we have to eat the shit again for 4 years. And if we don’t activate at the local and state level, every future federal election will be to protect the status quo from worse annihilation. So instead of whining about Biden, people should be fighting progressive DSA fights on the smaller stages where they are actually able to and have already begun to win. Then you build a solid democracy. Un-gerrymander the red states. Pass legislation to reform the supreme court. And have the ability to elect a third party or push the DNC to the left, for the White House. But that’s the actual and only way. Electing Trump does not move the movement forward. Full stop. I’d love to see that refuted bc it’s likely happening whether we whine about Biden being left enough.
I don’t think you can save a country founded on the back of a genocide and made strong by 300 years of slavery. I think y’all need to start fresh.
So Europe is going to ship their wealth back to Africa and Asia?
